Five University of Colorado at Boulder physics professors have been selected among the nation's 200 most outstanding speakers on physics by the American Physical Society.
They were the only physics professors to be cited in Colorado, and among only seven physicists to be cited in the state.
"Each of these speakers was nominated by a group of their peers as someone who would give an exceptional talk," the society said in its announcement. The APS created the list of speakers who can address general audiences "to celebrate a truly remarkable century of physics and to share our excitement about the many physics accomplishments with as wide an audience as possible."
The APS is the world's leading organization of physicists and will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 1999. The international group is based in College Park, Md., and has more than 40,000 members in industry, academia and government.
The ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder professors cited as "Centennial Speakers" and their topics are:
oEric Cornell, professor adjoint of physics and fellow of JILA; "Bose-Einstein Condensation: New Physics Below Microkelvin."
oJames Faller, professor adjoint of physics and fellow of JILA; "Precision Measurements with Gravity and Other Things."
oAllan Franklin, professor of physics; "Are There Really Electrons? Experiment and Reality."
oStephen Leone, professor adjoint of physics and fellow of JILA; "Ultrafast Laser Studies of Molecular Wave Packets."
oCarl Wieman, distinguished professor of physics and fellow of JILA; "Bose-Einstein Condensation in an Ultracold Gas" and "Parity Violation in Atoms."
The physics department is part of ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder's College of Arts and Sciences. JILA, formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, is a joint institute of ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder and National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Two NIST physicists in Boulder, John Bollinger and David Wineland, also were named to the list.